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Tesla decides to build Gigafactory in Germany not UK, blames Brexit

seems par for the course these dayshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7680365/Elon-Musk-announces-Tesla-Gigafactory-Europe-built-Germany.html

Matt Palmer ● 2555d9 Comments

It's alright Matt, we'll have our Sovereignty instead.  Much better than new jobs. 

John Gorst ● 2555d

A hard headed business decision by Musk - not even rocket science to locate it in the EU - and in Germany where the motor industry expertise resides. One wonders how long it will be before some of the motor racing teams start looking to migrate from the UK to the EU? Still, we get blue passports - ah, but we could have had those in the EU anyway 😟 But the Russian oligarchs donating to Johnson and the Tory party will be avoid the EU's new AML rules ...

Michael Ixer ● 2555d

With Germany teetering on recession again Merkel could do with some good news. Meanwhile the U.K. economy is relatively strong despite all the Brexit uncertainties, and our inflation rate is now the lowest it's been for for 3 years.But carry on talking our great country down Matt, it obviously makes you happy lol. Thank goodness though for the brilliant Andrew Neil:"Better than Germany!’ Andrew Neil shuts down Irish senator who mocked UK growth figureshttps://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1202912/BBC-news-Andrew-Neil-UK-economy-growth-figures-recession-Ireland-senator

Sue Hammond ● 2555d

I wasn't aware I was talking down the economy or the country.Just pointing out the Brexit is costing us jobs, before it's even happened.

Matt Palmer ● 2555d

C'mon Matt you and Clare are always moaning 😫 and fear-mongering about Brexit, and whingeing that it will destroy the U.K.....boo hoo. 😩I can't remember one post when either of you said the U.K. is a fantastic place, all I read from you is how wonderful the EU is.🙄

Sue Hammond ● 2555d

i'm not, actually i think i've been pretty quiet recently! (I cant speak for Clare lol)But you're right about one thing, I don't think the UK is a fantastic place at all. Poverty ever increasingSchools massively underfundedNHS massively underfundedWage growth poorPolitics completely brokeni'm sure i could go on.

Matt Palmer ● 2555d

@Sue. As I said in my post this would have been a hard nosed business decision. If you're setting up a manufacturing facility with many components sourced from suppliers on a JIT basis its less risky and more convenient to do that within a single market and common customs area. I remember when I was development manager in the late 1980s for a small software house supplying an embryonic ERP system to manufacturing companies one of the products we integrated with was one producing reams of paper documentation for exports to numerous locations. I'm sure many organisationsare pleased to have done away with that bureacracy in the EU. Just puts companies not in the EU at a disadvantage.

Michael Ixer ● 2555d

You'll never convince Sue that things are dire  in the UK and likely to get worse, Matt. We are just 'doom-mongers' and she and other Brexiteers will continue to blame it all on the EU instead of Government action here.Even Boris implies our politics are broken in his laughable Election party political broadcast where he admits to cooking steak and oven chips, can't order a Thai takeaway because there is too much security at No 10 (duh!) eating fish and chips on a cold beach (?!) and puts milk in his tea before taking the tea bag out. (Quel horreur.)

Lucille Grant ● 2555d

I forgotPolice downCrime up

Matt Palmer ● 2555d